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Cats like men are flatterers.
Walter Savage Landor
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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
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To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.
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I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.
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In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
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When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
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Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
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Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
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There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.
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Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.
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Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
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As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
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How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.
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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
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True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
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He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
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